‘Transdisciplinarity’: A Framework of Knowledge Production in North-South Partnerships?
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Positive ideologies ain’t enough! (Dis)junctions and paradoxes in minority language protection
In 2018, I conducted research on the application of protection measures for two minority language groups (Cimbrian and Mocheno) in Northern Italian schools. The study aimed at describing linguistic learning programs but it slowly turned into something …
Beyond the fingerprints: From biometric to genetics
Aside to the demographic screening, a deeper biosocial interest in India can be observed on the scale of groups and subpopulations. Several agencies (university consortia, departments of human forensic genetics), are pursuing the inspection of populati…
Call for papers
Dear Colleagues!
CAES editors team awaits for your papers for CAES Vol. 7, N 1 that is going to be published in late February 2021.
Norwegian Taxi Industry Through 2020
Journal of Extreme Anthropology
Back in the Foundation
Oral Tradition, 34 (2020):3-441 On an 1820-21 trip into the fledgling Serbian Principality, Vuk Stefanović Karadžić (hereafter “Vuk”), the language reformer, orthographer, folklorist, and ideological father of the modern Serbian state,2 collected the song “The Building of Skadar” (“Zidanje Skadra”) from the guslar (bard) Old Man (Starac) Raško3 at Prince Miloš Obrenović’s manor in Kragujevac.4 […]
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Unraveling the Knot
Oral Tradition, 34 (2020):45-72 Introduction Proverbs are storehouses of traditional wisdom and are highly valued in Africa. Among the Akan of Ghana, proverbs are used in everyday conversations, storytelling, ancestral and royal praise singing, and conflict resolution, among other contexts. Proverbs may be expressed through drumming, horn-blowing, and dance gestures, and they may be illustrated […]
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Editor’s Column
I am pleased to present to readers Oral Tradition Volume 34, comprising four essays that demonstrate, in the diversity of their topics and approaches, the broad reach of the study of orality and oral tradition. This volume brings together traditions from three continents—as well as, perhaps unexpectedly, the work of one of the twentieth century’s […]
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About the Authors
Oral Tradition Volume 34 Dorian Jurić Dorian Jurić is a Canadian cultural anthropologist, folklorist, and railroad maintenance foreman whose research explores the political life of folklore in the Western Balkans. He has also recently become the Vice President of the Slavic, East European, and Eurasian Folklore Association. His writing, on topics ranging from oral traditions […]
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Orality and Social Memory in Vladimir Nabokov’s Lolita
Oral Tradition, 34 (2020):105-20 As any reader of Lolita knows, Vladimir Nabokov’s novel is characterized by the strong, central voice of its narrator, Humbert Humbert, opening as it does with one of the most famous apostrophes in literary history. Humbert lures readers in, seducing them with his confiding tone and the ornate register of his […]
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Learning to be Satisfied
Oral Tradition, 34 (2020):73-104 In memory of Barre Toelken “This is so, isn’t it?” —F. R. Leavis (1972:62) “Hane’ doo t’óó saad t’éí át’é jinóózį́į́’ át’éé da, t’áá bí be’iina’ haleeh.” —Rex Lee Jim (cited in Casaus 1996:10) Rough translation: “Stories (poems) are not just words to be thought about, they are to become life.” “[Poetry] […]
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CAES Vol. 6, № 4
Editor’s foreword Think pieces: Alexander Akulov Interpreting the proximity values of potsherds collections received by the Monte Carlo method Alexander Akulov If we are going to learn to what degree the collection of potsherds x belonging to the technocomplex X is close to the collection y belonging to the technocomplex Y, then the degree of […]
Asian Ethnology :: Phi Muangs
AE | Volumes | Asian Ethnology 79 (2) Khamti Forces of Place in Arunachal Pradesh Nicolas Lainé A text version of this article will be published in the future. In the meantime, please download the PDF version.
The Intertextuality of Sgrung and the Question of Social Authority
AE | Volumes | Asian Ethnology 79 (2) Valentina Punzi A text version of this article will be published in the future. In the meantime, please download the PDF version.
The Emergence of an Environmentally Conscious and Buddhism-Friendly Marginalized Hmong Religious Sect along the Laos-Thailand Border
AE | Volumes | Asian Ethnology 79 (2) Ian G. Baird A text version of this article will be published in the future. In the meantime, please download the PDF version.
New issue available: Special Issue Refugee Resettlement in Early Twenty-First Century New Zealand
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Introduction to the 2020 December Issue
As subject editor of the NJAS social sciences section, I am excited to welcome you to the Christmas issue of 2020. The social sciences section of the Nordic Journal of African Studies came into being in 2018, and since then we have, together with autho…
Piedras que se mueven: estudio sobre grabados rupestres en asentamientos aldeanos de Cachi y La Poma (Salta, Argentina)
Las representaciones rupestres en el Valle Calchaquí Norte además de ser expresiones abundantes y características se destacan por estar localizadas al interior de poblados arqueológicos, así como también en concentraciones especiales denominadas “campo…
Pampa Iluga y las “chacras” de los ancestros (Tarapacá, norte de Chile): tensionando materialidades y ontologías desde la arqueología
Se presenta el sitio Iluga Túmulos de la región de Tarapacá, Chile. El sitio se localiza en Pampa Iluga, al sur del Cerro Unitas donde se dispone el geoglifo Gigante de Tarapacá y al oeste de la quebrada de Tarapacá. Se asocia a miles de hectáreas de c…
Prácticas funerarias y ritualidad en la Quebrada de Los Corrales, Tucumán-Argentina (3.800-3.500 a.p.)
En este trabajo presentamos los resultados de un análisis integral sobre el contexto funerario más antiguo detectado en la Quebrada de Los Corrales, la cual se ubica a una altitud promedio de 3.100 msnm en el sector norte del sistema montañoso Aconquij…
Entre sustancias y fragmentos: La construcción del cuerpo y la persona en el NOA
Habitualmente el Período Medio (ca. 600-1000 d.C.) en el Noroeste Argentino (NOA) ha sido caracterizado a partir de la presencia de sociedades Aguada, las cuales compartieron una serie de elementos de común denominación en lo que concierne a sus repert…
Tiempo y presencia de rocas intervenidas en el mundo doméstico. Una mirada desde el sitio Mortero Quebrado (ca. 1–600 d.C.)
En este trabajo se presentan las relaciones contextuales en las que se hallaron determinadas rocas intervenidas en Mortero Quebrado, un asentamiento aldeano del primer milenio de la Era cristiana en la vertiente oriental de las Cumbres Calchaquíes (en …
Sin retorno. Sujetos/objetos partidos
En este trabajo discutimos los escenarios de clausura colectiva de sitios arqueológicos, indagando sobre prácticas de destrucción intencional de la cultura material. Nuestra perspectiva teórica se distancia de una ‘ontología de la producción’ que inter…
Al ritmo del sol, bajo la tutela de los ancestros. Performance ritual en la Peña del Medio durante el Tardío-Inca, Paicuqui (Antofagasta de la Sierra, Provincia de Catamarca)
Presentamos la interpretación sobre actores, tiempos, paisajes y corporalidad involucrados en celebraciones rituales desarrolladas en la “Peña del Medio” para el período Tardío-Inca en la localidad de Paicuqui, Antofagasta de la Sierra, Catamarca (Arge…
Resistentes mundos puneños: la ritualidad en los procesos de re-etnización de Laguna Blanca (Dpto. Belén, Catamarca)
El trabajo propone una invitación para recorrer la relación entre los contextos rituales, entendidos como dispositivos de intensificación tendientes a la consolidación comunitaria, y los procesos de re-etnización. Estos rituales pueden llegar a reducir…